Fermanagh GAA
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:For more information on Fermanagh GAA see: Fermanagh Senior Club Football Championship or Fermanagh Senior Club Hurling Championship.
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| Irish: | Fear Manach | ||||||||||||||||
| Province: | Ulster | ||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s): | The Ernesiders | ||||||||||||||||
| County Colours: | Green and white | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Brewster Park, Enniskillen | ||||||||||||||||
| Dominant Sport: | Gaelic football | ||||||||||||||||
| NFL: | Division 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| NHL: | Division 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Football Championship: | Sam Maguire Cup | ||||||||||||||||
| Hurling Championship: | Nicky Rackard Cup | ||||||||||||||||
| Ladies' Gaelic football: | Brendan Martin Cup | ||||||||||||||||
| Camogie: | O'Duffy Cup | ||||||||||||||||
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The Fermanagh County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cummann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Fear Manach) or Fermanagh GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Fermanagh. The county board is also responsible for the Fermanagh inter-county teams
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[edit] History
Fermanagh have the smallest GAA playing population in Ireland. Despite this they have a strong GAA tradition in the county which went largely unrewarded until the remarkable achievement of the 2004 team in reaching the All Ireland semi-final and forcing the match to a replay. Fragments of a poem from 1806 describe a football match between Louth and Fermanagh at Inniskeen, Co Monaghan.
[edit] Gaelic football
Fermanagh are a beneficiary of the change to the GAA championship in the 2000s. In 2003 they beat Donegal in the Ulster championship, then Meath and Mayo in the All Ireland qualifiers to reach the quarter-final. They went to a replayed semi-final in 2004, beating Meath, Cork and Donegal and most memorably of all Armagh, thanks to a late point by Tom Brewster, before losing to Mayo. In 2006 despite running All-Ireland favourites Armagh close twice in the Ulster Championship, Fermanagh yet again ended the season without a trophy after losing out to neighbours Donegal in the fourth round of the Qualifiers.
Poor pitches, opposition from the "never on Sunday" puritanism of the Unionist opponents of the GAA, and the smallest population of the thirty-two counties have conspired to keep Fermanagh away from the big-time. Under-age competitions have been organised with 13-a-side and even 11-a-side teams because of the lack of numbers. Yet, under manager Pat King, they managed a hat-trick of success in 1997 in the B Championship, McKenna Cup and Division 4 of the National League.
Peter McGinnity was the outstanding player of the under-21 team which reached two All Ireland finals and defeated Derry and Tyrone to reach the 1982 Ulster final, Despite a Peter McGinnity goal that put them in the lead with 20 minutes remaining, they lost 0-10 to 1-4 to Armagh. Fermanagh beat the reigning national league champions Down the following year but have failed in four semi-finals since then and as yet remain the only county in the province to never win the Anglo-Celt cup.
One of Ulster's great footballers, Armagh-born Jim McCullough, played for Fermanagh in the mid-1930s and helped them reach the 1935 Ulster final and 1936 National League final. Earlier still Fermanagh beat Cavan in the 1914 Ulster semi-final and were nominated by the Ulster Council to play against Wexford in the All-Ireland semi-final. Because the train schedules did not allow them to get back for Sunday night, and the Great Northern Railway Company refused to run a special train because they were opposed to sport on Sunday, Fermanagh had to abdicate the responsibility to Monaghan, who later beat them in the Ulster final anyway.
[edit] Honours
- All-Ireland Junior Football Championships: 1
- 1959
All Stars
1982 Peter McGinnity
2004 Barry Owens, Martin McGrath
2006 Barry Owens
[edit] Notable Players
- P. McGinnity
- M. McGrath
- M. Little
- Tom Brewster
[edit] Hurling
[edit] External links
- Fermanagh on Hoganstand.com
- National and provincial titles won by Fermanagh teams
- Club championship winners
- Fermanagh GAA site
- Up to date League tables for Club football in Fermanagh
| Gaelic Athletic Association | ||
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| National Football League | ||
| Division 1 | A |
Cork | Donegal | Dublin | Fermanagh | Kerry | Limerick| Mayo | Tyrone |
| B |
Armagh | Derry | Down | Galway | Kildare | Laois | Louth | Westmeath |
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| Division 2 | A |
Carlow | Clare | Leitrim | London | Longford | Monaghan| Offaly | Roscommon |
| B |
Antrim | Cavan | Meath | Sligo | Tipperary | Wexford| Waterford | Wicklow |
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| National Hurling League | ||
| Division 1 | A | |
| B | ||
| Division 2 | A | |
| B | ||
| Division 3 | A | |
| B | ||
| Connacht | Leinster | Munster | Ulster | Third level | ||
| All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship - Nicky Rackard Cup (2007) | ||
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Armagh | Cavan | Donegal | Fermanagh | Leitrim | Longford | Louth | Monaghan | Roscommon | Sligo | Tyrone | Warwickshire |
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Liam McCarthy Cup (Tier 1) - Christy Ring Cup (Tier 2) - Nicky Rackard Cup (Tier 3) |
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